Is it always the same with one dock or cable? I mean if you dock your iPod into your "dock A" do you receive that message each time? Or does it work sometimes and sometimes it does not?
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MartinOct 20 '10 at 10:11

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Is the charger one designed for an older iPod with charging on the firewire pins in the dock connector. The spec has changed in more recent devices to only charge from the usb power pins so it is detecting the older configuration and giving you this message

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